The Sun. — London, England, 1826-06-29 00:00:00

THI , LONDON JOURN4S. DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS. JUNE 29, 1826. [THE TIMES.] We have to notice an act committed by the Courier newspaper of the most shocking kind. In its leading article of Saturday last, the 24th inst., it invents, or it suffers some wretch to invent in London, and to insert in its columns, a speech for Colonel Lowther at Appleby, in Westmoreland, in which the gallant of fieer is made thus to express himself:—" He (Co lonel Lowther) said the Hon. Gentleman who had proposed the Learned Gentleman had insinuated that he (Col. Lowther) was unable to compete with him (Mr. Brougham) in eloquence. He admitted the fact. He (Cal. LOwther) had not been bred to the bar—he had studied in a different school ; and he be lieved the Learned . Gentleman would, if he took the trouble to inquire into it, find that he understood his trade, which was fighting, quite as well as the Learned Gentleman did his, which I.,as talking; and if he had any , of the quality which ought to belong to his pro fession to spare, it might not,. perhaps, prove unac teptable to the Learned Gentleman—(hear, hear) — from from whom he would have no objection to take in re turn a portion of his oratory."—(Loud Cheers.) — Colonel Lowther, if he reads the Courier newspaper, must have been as much surprized as Mr. Brougham, on seeing words and belltillleittS so totally remote from those he had uttered or conceived imputed to him.— The proceedings that took place on the arrival of Sa turday s Conner at Appleby, containing the above vile falsehood, are thus detailed in the Globe and Traveller of last night WESTIVOItELAND ELECTION. in consequence of a report in last Saturday's courier of Col. Lowther's speech ta Appleby, on Thursday the 22d of June, in which he is represented as 'peaking of of Mr. Brougham, Mr. Strickland waited upon the Colonel, ou Mr. Brougham's behalf, to know if the Colonel had so spoken in some part of his speech which had escaped Mr, Brougham and his friends, none of *whom had heard any thing in the least resembling the account in the Courier. Th• Colonel, in the must direct and explicit man ner, asserted that he never bad weed any such expressions, stating that a n he had, said,was, that he and Mr. Brougham, were of dif ferent professions, the latter having practised public speaking all his life, which. accounted for the Colonel's inferiority alluded to by Mr. Wybergh, and that all the rest was an addition of the newspaper. Mr. Brougham stated on the hustings, in the evert rwlisit•had pained, in the prusence of the Colonel, who dis tinctly confirmed the statement, denying he ever heel made the speech ascribed to him by the Courier." Of-courtie, Colon'el Lowther not having uttered one word of what was imputed to him, had nothing to do but to gate the fact, and the matter was at an end. But this is not all. In the very paper in which the fiend-inveuted falsehood appears in prose, is a copy of doggrel verses, containing the same falsehood in rhyme ; at the beginning of which verses, the writerre 7 fers for the subject to " The speech of the Honour able Colonel Lowther, at .Appleby, in this clay's paper." But bow could the versifier see and hear words which were never uttered at Appleby, and which had never appeared in print, till the very same (lay, (and,in the very same journal to 6); in which his verses appeared, in .Landon ? It is clear, therefore, that the writer of the Verses must. have, seen the lead ing article of the Courier, in manuscript : or the same creature must be the author of the prose and the verse. A man may write verses to-day, on a false statement that appeared yesterday ; but if the statement comes out on t the same day,. verse .anci, io. prom), it is be yond contradiction that the author of one must have seen tit, invention of the other in manuscript, if in deed there were two authors, which is not likely. And now to have done with an fair of honour, which in that character has terminated properly and happily ; and which, must, we should apprehend, become next an affair of law. We cannot help observing, on cast ing our eyes 'for the first time over the Bathe paper of Saturday last, that that journal — Ascribes, in its leading article, words and sentiments Lord Lowther, the elder. • brother, which do not appear fr,om the regular report to have been ever uttered by his Lordship!! What I are the Lowthers sunk so low as this, then, in point of intellect, and even in point of money to retain competent agents near them, that being unable to speak appropriately themselves, they are obliged to employ persons at a distance to publish supposi titious speeches for them in London ; but those pub lishers of supposititious speeches, such dolts, men so little acquainted with the language of gentlemen, that they get their employers into the most painful scrapes, by falsely imputin- to them sentiments which, with all their political faults, the Lowthers are incapable of conceiving ? This is degradation indeed. - This is the first time that a Mrecenas, if rich and generous, WAX obliged to be content with a Bavins or Mtevius. Sines the above was written, we have received our own report of the proceeding's at Appleby on gon day) from which it appears that the dirty nusrcpresen. tation on which we have animadverted has had the not uncommon effect of involving persons perfectly innocent in the odium of the guilt. [TII4 MOTININ,Ci CIIRONICLE.] err eurpaper of the 13th inst. we predicted that the Burmese march would not •ratify the Preliminary Treaty negoeiated between his Chief: and the British Authotitito. it appears to us that, the Burmese Chiefs were never authorised to negociate, and that they were not sincere in anything but a desire to gain time and security: from our victorious pursuing army ;' and in this they lieVe completely succeeded, for we have lost a very considerable portion of the short favourable season of the year for carrying on military operations; and the latgie reinforcements prepared at Bengal and Madras havebttee countermanded No new operation cart be ailetnnted , by Sir Arch. Campbell until the middle of November ; ul Arrieme, there are, we fear, too few re maining alive of that tints army, even to protect them- SelVes in that pestilential position ;- and we grieve to say, we expect, erillntig, to bear or its total extir— pation, unless it receives considerable reinforcements. Our troops appear on the late occasion to have behay. 0 with their usual gallantry, but forward to Atteera pocks, the capital, they cannot,move; as soon as the tides fail, they must come to a stand ; any man N egro bee ever ascended great, rivers: like the Ir rawaddy, must know, that flat boats only are echo ed to the mtvigation, that. none other can be used, and that these must be trucked by force , of men whom our army have net the means of procuring. The exertioes of the natty have hitherto been most UReful and' exemplary ; but when assistance from the tide fails, European boats or boatmen can no leinger, be employed, and as to rowing 500 miles, of even 20 miles, in flat boats against a rapid stream, the thing can .never be .attempted. Sir A. 'Campbell, bythe late accounts, appears now to have adopted the Only plan likely to 'succeed, and which ought to have been pursued : before we sent a man into the country ; for it is by the_ assistance of the dependent Chi c iS alone we can ever hope to be successful in the:Bur mese empire. But will these Chiefs, after what they have seer), be disposed to join us in effecting the downfall - off: the ~, Golaen-footed Monarch id" We trust, hoWeVer, that our Authorities, in case of en tering into another treaty, will take care to have hostages of high rank for its due performance. ['lll . MORNpiG HERALD.,]. We have no doubt that if it were proposed in Par- liament to establish a Censorship of the Press, 'it would put the kingdom in a flame. from one end to the other—yet under the esent Law of Libel. there are as oppressive things done, nut only to, suppress the freedom of opinion, but to destroy the fidelity of historical . statement, as ; the tyranny of a censorship could sanction. It may be asked how does this hap pen, seeing that there is a stature which protects the Press against the direct influence of arbitrary doc trines, and which has transferred from Judges to Jury, men the sole right of, pronouncing what is a libel, and what is not ? We answer, , that Jurymen do so rarely avail themselves of the powers with which they are invested by. that 'statute, that.it has almost become a dead letter. The consequence is, that encourage ment is given to the lowest class of the legal profes sion, the needssand , speculating attorney—to contrive and instigate actions of libel, that they may fill their pockets with exactions under the name of costs, They get hold of persons as needy as themselves, who may 'have got their names into the newspapers, by, the re ports of: proceedings at the Sessions, police offieem, &c., and they induce them to bring actions, with the hope of extorting money in the way of compromise, or at least of obtaining the amount of a large bill of costs 'under a verdict for the smallest damages. They know that if the, character of their client should be estimated by the Jury but at a shilling or a, farthing, they will, nevertheless, ,have all the costs; and this regulation of the law seems admirably, contrived for the benefit of litigious attorneys. it is nothing lees than saying, " Let attorneys who cannot get legitimate business waste the public time and harass the Courts of Justice with actions of libel that may not be of more-than one farthing's value ; yet on.. account of every such action, the law will allow them a premium of 1001. or 150/. !" Such is the provision made for those who bring the : administration of justice into pub lic disrepute, and convert the laws into an engine of extortion. It sometimes occurs, however, that a jury is found who estimate rightly the motives of the low practitioners of the law, who attack the Press with vexatious actions of libel ; and by an independent verdict, turn the tables on the cunning manufacturer of :costs. If this were more frequently done, the time of both Judges and Juries would not be so much con sumed as it has been of late years by trumpery cases or this sort, which throw an air of ridicule round the solemn proceedings of justice. Our readers have.seen the report of a trial in our Paper of SatutdaY, Which was brought by an attorney named Robinson, against Mr. Clement, the proprietor of the MorningChro nide. Our readers are aware it was in evile n ce on that trial that this person had . brought-no Jess' than nine or ten actions of libel against difarent News. papers for the, same cause of action, which arose ori ginally outof a report 'of atrial of a pig-keeper ,and his wife, at a country Quarter-Sessions, for an assault —five of the ten actions of libel were brought in the name of the poor cottitc , ,er above-mentioned, who probably did not know how to read,, and the others in the name of the attorney himself. If we add to those two actions arifaing out of., the same affair, which this attorney brought against Mr. Knight, proprietor of the .Trucks Gazette, we have hite twelve cases of libel, manufactured out of one' Of the most; paltry occurrences that ever ' ) was reported in a newspaper. Yet, paltry ,as the oe ' currerice was, if the attorney succeeded in all these in getting in each but a farthing damages, twelve far things damages in all, whiCh amounts, according to Cocker, to the sum of three-pence, he would - have had from one hundred, to one hundred and . fifty pounds damages on each,'or from twelve hundred to eighteen hundred pounds in all! Let us take it at the loweit calculation, and here will be a libel.producingthree pence in damages to the client,, and twelve hundred pounds in costs to the attorney. is it to be wondered at, now that solieitorships. of joint-stock schenies are no longer profitable, that many of the keen sports men in the lower grades of the law should turn their attention to such a promising field of speculation? Had the number of attorneys that fled from justice , on the sudden breaking up of the joint-stock schemes, confined the exercise of their ingenious talents to .the manufacturing of eases, of libel, they might have plun dered the public very. extensively without incurring legal punishment. But we trust the example of the Jury, in the ! , a,se of Robinson v. Clement, will effec wally check a practice that thrcatencd.to destro every vestige of liberty in the press more, completely than ever was done hy. the .strong aria of absolute power. It is true that in , the case of one or two newspapers Robinson discontinued the proceedings, oil obtaining an abject apology, and a sum of money besides. . If indeed it were only for vindicatien of chargter,.lie looked, one action would have answered the purpose, as the report in question first appeared in a Sunday Paper, and was ci)pied, along with other law pro ceedings of the Saturday, into some of the Morning Papers of the following Monday—not one of, the editors of which knew or cared one farthing about the parties, who were utterly obseure. There could con sequently he no intention to miSrepresent them, and if the original report was false or coloured, one action would have proved that as well as twelve, and that ac tion would have been reported as extensively as the original one. ' What objeet then could the attorney have,in bringing so many actions, hut' the . matiplica tion of costs? and why did he :never apply for an ex planation or apology, without also demanding a sum of money. 'We hive already - ',shown that 1,2p01. might have been reaped by thOse paltry proceedings, although the damages should only amount to 4t.t. of the copper coin of this realm. But let us suppose a case that sometimes happens—namely, that all the London Papers had either reported or ,copied the re- port of the original trial. What, thepwould have been the attorney's harvest, on this principle of multiplying costs. Now there are about 16 Morning and -tyening Papers, and about 20 weekly ones.. : The former [ would have given the comprehensive Mr. Robinson the opportunity of bringing 92 actions, and the latter would have furnished him with the occasion of 40 inure, making for titiridon alone 7 actions of libel, from the one reportritif an insignificant trial, supposing that he got only a. farthing damages for his client in each, or eighteen-pence in all. Let the costs be esti mated au low as 1001,, and here would be is. M. in damages to he put in the client's liocket, to be fingered by tha attorney, which- is more than the o the M salary f and 7,200/. Master of the Rolls ; and considerably more than the salary of any of the three Pulsing Judges of the King's Bench. Those who prprest. to un d er atand the matter repre sent that the Governm ent , t h e Cat h o li cs , and the landed interests will all turn out to be losers by the re suit of the General_ Election. If such bar the case, it is difficult to know who are to be the gainers, unless it be the mercantile and manufacturing interesth, which certainly do appear to have acquired strength ,at some places, at the expence of the land owners. It is for tunate, however, for these latter, that there is a feeling both of pride and of security, coupled with the posses sion of the soil ; and a than, therefore, no sooner ac quires wealth by trade, than one or both of these no tions,prompt ban to invest part of his capital in land, by which means his :commercial attachments and his landed antipathies become blended with and merge into each other. This is, in fact., but a picture of what every society out to be, and for the most part is. Every branch of the community is, and ought to be, more or less dependent upon the rest ; and any attempt to 'uphold or depress any peculiar interest at the expence , of, or for the supposed benefit of the rest, and to:foment a spirit of jealousy and discord, where union is so natural and desirable; is unworthy of any man who rightly views the true interests and bearings of the social compact. When, therefore, the Corn Laws come, as they doubtless will, to be discussed in the new Parliament, we trust that the diseussion will not be entered upon as' a, struggle of party,. or that the advocates on either. side' will have to boast of or rely upon the Book of Numbers. On the contrary, we trust that Government swill so have employed the in terval which will -have preceded the discussion, in con densing their views upon the subject into such a li beral, an enlightened, an intelligible, and statesman like form, as :may have the effect of convincing and uniting all parties, both in and out of Parliament, upon a topic which, if rightly considered, is one of equal importance to all ranks of the community.--/bid. [THE REPRESENTATIVE.] A Correspondent has addressed us, to express his satisfaction at our " change of tone in favour of the Greeks." He must have been mistaken : our senti ments in regard to the cause remain the same. We hare always wished well to men who are fighting in defence of their hearths, and we have raised our voices against such only as are the indiscreet or knavish partisans of the Hellenists. We are con vinced that the 'interests of this unhappy people have suffered in consequence of the injudicious measures that have been adopted under col Our of serving them. We are also persuaded, that if a few persons of known prudence and character would come forward, and de- Clare themselves ,ready to discuss the real merits of the case, and to deliberate upon the best means of contributing to the relief of the suffering Patriots of Greece, thousands of hearts and hands would open to them. • It is impossible that any person, to whom . the history of ancient and modern Greece is fami liar, can feel indifferent to the fate of the 'descend ants of the heroes of Marathon and Thennopyhe. Those glorious battles have been fought over and over again in the age we live in ; and the Russels and the Howards of 1826 cannot show better proof, by record and register, that they are of the true line and lineage of the noble old houses of Bedford and Norfolk, than the nations of the Noma, by' feats of arms, that. they derive their blood from the ancient tribes of the Peloponnesus. The people of Greece are not materially altered, any more than their language ; and if our hearts throbbed . when we,were school-boys, while we were in suspense to know 'who were victori. WIN al t.h..lamis, they. may heat now with an agitation squally generous, till it in decided whether the Croms or the Crescent shall prevail. The affinity holds in every point of view, when We contemplate the ancient and the present conflict, Europeans are fighting against Asiatics for more than their liberty, and for more than the existence of themselves and families.— If defeat would bring : extermination to the men capa ble of bearing arins, and to the aged, whit would it bring to the young of both sexes ? But, to admit all that can be required of us,* if the Greeks of the pre- Sent age are degenerated from those 'who abandoned their homes rather. than, submit to the enemy, how much worse are, Ibrahitri "Pasha and his Arabs, than Darius or Xerxes and his Persians 1. The destruction of tens oftrillions : Would bring no tears from 'lbrahim, E . NEW TVWXB.3 in the body politic, as i n the^ body ph a ysical, the causes of disease are not unfrequently as ifficult of investigation an the cure. What were not the proxi mate causes for these have been successfully traced ; but the primary causes of the late, we fear we must • say the present , commercial , distress, are still to be discovered. That excessive speculation, bubble coin panics, and over-production, brought on the crisis is most true ; but the question will still recur, vettence came it that the ordi nary channel.' of legitimate commerce were, all of a sudden, too narrow for the capital of the country? How came it to pass that the ordinary objects of commerce were of a sudden ithendim ed for joint-stock bubbles ? By what unlucky . conihination of chances did it happen that the supply, at one period more than at another, so much exceeded the demand ? Tf it be answered, that the low rate of interest turned a larger 'quantity of capital than could he easily employed into commercial pursuit', still we have to learn What produced the low rate of interest. Leaving to those who have time and talent to resolve doubts, which, in our brief sketches, we can, at best, but hint at, we observe, that in all cases of dis tree* connected with trade or commerce, whether the distress full upon an individual, or upon a community, the loss of credit presses with infinitely more weight than the loss of capital. No nation, like England, can, in the nature of things, traffic except on credit. Were the whole transactions of the kingdom limited to cash bargains, strictly so culled, the commerce, both external and internal, of the country, would be in a great measure awn ! bilated. The great supporters of the credit of the country are the bankers. They are the accredited and known guarantees of the solvency of individuals, who thoneh, perhaps, equally wil•L vent as their. guarantees, are not equally known and trusted. • The banker, when he exchanges for the bill of a merchant his notes, which are the Banker', bills, naively interpo*es the outfit ofh is name between the public end the individual, and the per centsge which he demands from the latter, but- which, in_ reality, in the general balance, falls upon the former, is not to be looked on as interest of money lent,. but as the premium due , for warranty o f t h e d e bt. r N td o e w ; w h ichehnoebvtaeriitiisminesoothfedrisktrirldss of come, the natural course , were t h e insurance to operate here, would be for the Banker to raise the premium in proportion to the r t 4ok r ;— roc i e n ss w o h f ic e l x i c caz gag i i tia scissor that no stop w ou ld -be put to the Banker's bills for the bills of the merchant. But since the usury laws say —we :Waive hors all discussion as to the propriety or impropriety of laws, we are giving facts not. ar g ume n ts--since these laws say th a t. t h e highest premium o f l ue u re oce which the Banker can d eman d is 40 per cent 4) the moment that 6re per cent. b ecomes , f rom ing offspri ng , t h ere f o r e , of c o mme rcial distre ss , is limitation of any circumstan ce , i nsu ffi c i ent to corer the risk, th e h an k er re fu eft iPsure, or in other words, to discount. Th e never fail dioramas, and as u perfect adjustment of the mean s t o t h e en d, is not an o bj ec t o f i mme di ate a ttainment in thi s , any more than in other eases, the limitation is almost necessarily pushed farther thin the distress warranted, and tini'h" by augmenting the Aix "der which it was intended to check. Bankers hive been some times pained for their charlotte to discounting, in times of trading difficulty, and perhaps their caution may be sometimes too easily awakened, b ut d i a. tbsyushould exe rc i se more th an ordinary care g rime ), t i mes , i t . justified hy every.prigtiple efikwu elate and common sense . tea have bilked `so long of the rowlo, that we have forg o tten the utter Miaapplicetion of the. term, W e ought t o have recollecied, that a panic never read, in tilt) nature of thiligs l .be 44ntsrons, _unless.wherOher o was an enemy to take adViintageq., utiF ootpirereigt 4-0 1 7 qessheen a panic , or hail its origin in a plinle, as was PIT"' ceived, it *het - Ong ere now bave istifileat; aYi but of laughter, e ar ell panics ars as soon as they ere dile-covered. But although the experience of thousands vouches for tlie sad of our: commercial (timer, it is not for a ni:tntent to be doubted, that our conceptions of that reality, from the medium of fear and uncertainty through which we have viewed it, have been much beyond What its 'breadth and depth fairly justify : in other words, we are now truly suffering from panic; the - effects of which muse removed; the wheels of bisiness may be expected Speedily to resume their wonted epeed and amoothnest of revolution. We have been drawn on to these observations kohl a remark of our - City Correspondent, that report states it to be the intention of - tbe Bank to discount bills at tom per cent. Now we . do not much regard the mere quantum of gain to the merchant, and ednseciuently to the pub lic, by the difference between five per and four per cent. It is the great commercial fact which such a resolution announces, that we principally regard—namely; that confidence between merchant and merchant may now be considered as restored ; that, to keep up the phraseology, we have been just employing, the bills of the merchant are no longer doubly hazardous. Let this lawet'ing,of. thepremiurn.be accompanied with liberality in the amount or the ,accommodation given, which it necessarily will be, and we do not &span►• of Seeing the distresses of our merchants and our traders, and our, weavers, passing to the land of forget fulness in the train of the election contests, and ourselves and our contemporaries, iii a few weeki, redUeed to the sad necessity of sending our wits abroad in search of melancholy tidings to inipreve the scat of the general prosperity at home. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—There being an intention on the part of the misters of anumber of trade. in the city to reduce the wages of, theirjournerzen; disturbances are anticipated, and in one or Iwo cases have taken place. Yesterday two journeymen cork cutters were brought before:the Loin Mayon, on a charge of hav ing illegally threatened and endeavoured to intimidate two work men, who bad refused to join a combination .to which the defend ants belonged. From the eiiidence of Richard Hill, and another journeyman, in the employ of Mr. Bucknell, a cork-cutter, it appeared 'that the masters 61 found ,it expedient to reduce the wages, and announced their intention to the men, who took a week's time to consider of it. They ultiniately refused to accept the wages offered, and the great body of them turned. out. The two complainaats agreed to go with the other men, with the proviso that their families could in the menu time be supported.; but finding that this could not be done, they wept to their work at, the reduced wages. The *- sequence was, 'that they were beset if the workshop by a mob of nearly 100 workmen, and received dreadful abuse and threats from the two . prisoners. One of the prisoners in his defence declared, that now the prices of provisions were increased, the masters wished to reduce their wages. He spoke with great energy on this point, and stated, a living could not be got at their reduced ►ages. His fellow workman and prisoner could earn no more than 12s. or ltis. per week at it. Hticknell declared, that the misters had only reduced the wages of the workmen because . they ware driven to do so by the circumstances of the trade. The. prisOner, who was adroitly put forward as a specimen of the condition of the workmen; wasan ex ception. They might by common skill obtain 80e. per week at the reduced wages, apd he had some in his shop who could earn upwards of V. per week. Several masters corroborated this statement. The LOKI) MAYOR said; that the laws were never more favour able to the journeymen than , at present ; and he for one was of opinion, that they were nut more favourable than they ought to he. It was but. just that they should be allowed to dispose of their labour, which was their property, in the best manner they could. They might make any agreements among themselves as, to the price they thought proper to take ; but they must not be allowed to violate with impunity the right of othcra in the same free dispo sal of their property. Here the journeymen had the least right to complain of their masters, as they might more easily,thirn any other clue of workmen setup for themselves if eirorbiteut profits were derived from' the Sale of 'their lab Our. His Lordship (with whom eat Mr. Alderman Kay) sentenced the prisoners to be confined one month each to bard labour in, the House of Correction, and declared his intention to in crease the punishment on each ease that might for the future be brought before him. BOW-STREET.—Yesterday James Wm. Leach, a man about thirtyyears of age, who had lost an atm, es it was said, in one of the Peninsular battles, was hi ought bet Ore Ale. Altusuu charged. under Lord Ellenbortrugh's act, with cutting and maim. tog John Brookes, with, intent to do him some grievously bodily hares. It appeared in evidence, that some year. ago the prosecutor, who is migrating Shopman to Mr. Careless, a cheesemonger in Clara market, slid who, independently of his employment, has some pri vete property, bectung,acquainted with a young woman of respect able:family?, named SusanoaliMurray, between whom and him an illicit intercourse took place, and she gave birth to a male child. After the child was born, the prosecutor was sued in the nsual way by the parish officeis, with whom, through his solicitor; he entered; into a compromise, be agreeing to pay 60/. doini within a certain period, which payment vat to exonerate him from all future demands. The mother of the child was a consenting party to this agreement, and at the proper time the 50/. were paid by the prosecutor, and an acquittance given to him by the parish officers. At a subsequent period, the prisoner became acquaint ed with Susannah Murray, and married her, having been brit informed, without any, disguise, of , her being the mother of a child bX the prosecutor. He consented, indeed, to take the child home and keep it, and did ap cheerfully until lately, when, he fill into milforturie, 'and being unable to support his wife and the family elle brought him after their marriage (hie children), he. applied .to the ,prosecutor for assidiner, repre senting to him the cost be had been at in rearing his (the pro secutor's) son. The prosecutor, in answer to the application, said, he had already paid ;SOL for the maintenance of the Child, and pleaded in bar of further claim, the bond of indemnity which he had got from the parish-officers. To this plea the prisoner rejoined, that the compromise with the officers was no, thing to him; that be had never received a shilling of the money, and that he had a right to demand payment for the rapport of the child for the time during which he bail maintained it. The prosecutor, however, persisted in refusing to give the prisoner any money, and they parted in great liner. For some time they lost sight of each other ; hut the prisoner was unceasing in his endeavours to find the prosecutor, and about two months ago he called upon a, mutual friend, of the name of Green, whom he entreated to tell him where Brookes was to be found. Green declared he did not know, upon which the prisoner said, " Yes, you do,; but it is no matter, I *hall find him; and here I have a weapon (taking a knife from under hie coat), which I intend for his destruction first, and then for my wife and children. • You also shall atiffir; but you are safe for the pre sent." Green, knowing the Violent disposition of the prisoner, warned Brookes of his danger, and told him to be on his guard. On Tuesday eveiring the .prisoner went into Mr. Careleesvehop, and inquired for Mr. Brookes, who at the moment .was standing - outside the shop door.. One a the shopmen pointed Brookes out, and the prisoner beckoned hiM in, saying he 'incted toapiak to him, " You know me, I believe ?" said the prisoner. ss No, I do not," replied Brookes; " I have no recollection of having ever seen you before." The prisoner then said, it weal**, and men, tioning his own name desired to know if Brookes was willing to pay 100/. down, for the maintenance of his child. Brooke/ said he would not pay a farthing, and repeated his former statement, of his having compromised with the parish officers. Some words wee, and the prisoner becoming violent, he was desired to leave the shop. At this moment he was standing in the middle of the shop with his hands under his coat, and Brookes was lean ing against the counter. The order ter him to quit the pre- Milk., being repeated, the p r i so n er Made a rush at Brookes, an d O aimed a desperate blOw at hie b re ast. Brookes raised hii h an de to parry the blow, and re c ei v ed it on. his left arm ; at th e same tine seizing• the prisoner with the other, and pushing hi m out o f t 49 shop. In a moment after he had discovered that he had re ceived a cut in the .arm, from which the, blood .flowed profusely. He went to a surgion,,iind . it was found that his arm WAS art to the bone, and one of the aniall arteries divided. The Har mer escaped for the thne, but waseepprehended yesterday Th ori um ; b y Commis, the r patrols The surgeon who dressed the wound said; it was certainly in.. flietati with a sharp irietrunient, and that if the Wow bed taken effect upon the . part to which it appeared to have been directed, death must almost inevitably have ensued. ' The pr i s o ne r di d neratteM't to de ny the charge, and sa id h e hoped the effect of it would lie to send hini out of the world, for he was sick of his life. If, added he, "the I nca . d en not de prive one o flife, I will end it myself; for longer in thin world I am determined I will not exist. I ant poverty-stricken ; I know not where to obtain that which will keep body a n d - soul together; and what is the g ood. of ritY burdetim g the earth 'any longer 'with' o miserable a being as myself? Mark me !—I will not liVe if I can deprive risysilf or life by any means." Mr. MINSICULL ordered the pnsona committed , and di , ,sited the gaolers (Ford and Joliet) toirge'irn sharp watch upon hishonduct so long as he shotild nimbi In their lush*. Pie Fr*ir.trOjetAnliad Naitothe - i)&r,:AlEokalfing bib tion to 4 POr9Y peelible. Ilis wife was Omni) with a child in 1) 4.194 steamed deeply.s,ffeeted. . MAJOLEBONE.oFFICEr. girths)" • 1.1 . ` John Chart wood, of 82, Seymour -place, B ryas:atone-glum informed-4W ItawilVsciV &it fte was pl&etd in a very awkWard siitiatiOn; from which nothing short of his assistance could extricate him.--; His house had become obnoxious to his neighbOursin consequent" of a lady who lodged there, and he was threatened by a respect , ' able solicitor with an indictment, unless be got rid of hex; bebad desired her to quit, het she set him at defiance, and said she would stay as long as she pleased. " Tel! me who the lady is," said Mr. Raweitesos, " and whet she is?".-.-" Her name, your 'Worship, is Mrs. Day." " Oh ! replied Mr, RAW - assort, " this urns lady requested . s private interview with meets Saturday : she then named a noble man by whom she is kept, and concluded her story by offering me a pound or two for myself if I would assist her . " — i (All pre sent, including the Magistrates, were convoked with laughter.)— " Yes," said Mr. Charlwood, " it is the very same, for she told me she had got your sanction to stay." Mr. RAWLINSON.—She might as well have told yon I had got her two pounds. I advised her to leave , and I advise you im mediately to get rid of her in the beat way you can. You m ust do it yourself. I have no power to assist you. She bits lodged 'three years with the applicant. Her real name is said to be Starhuck. Yesterday- William Butler, the driver of one of the Padding ton stage.coaches, was summoned to this office to answer the com plaint of Captain William Henry Clarence Dalrymple, for having assaulted hiturand used abusive language. The Captain deposed, that on Monday last lie had occasion to ride on one of the Pad dington stages, and on his arrival in the New-road, he disputed with the - driver in consequence of his not having set him down at the proper plea, when the defendant mine up and unnecessarily interfered, using the most insulting language, which he (the Cap ' tam) did not wish to repeat. Mr. itAwassos requested him to repeat the language. Captain--He called me "a l—y Scotch vagabond; which arose, he should in - agiee, from the prisoner tracing through his dialect that he wati from the north. He remonstrated with him, on which he struck him over the bat with his whip, which knocked it off. Wane*: felt .himself extremely irritated, and assured the prisoner that he' would prosecute him, but he acted with bravado and defiance. The prisoner denied the assault, and said that he was appe"led to by the coachman who drove the coisplainant to know whit be should do. He advised him to drive hits back again , 'ae it wits the best road to get rid of a bad customer. Fie denied calling him " a l—y vagabond ;" but said, if lie, (the Captain)wai Scotland they would not have far to drive him t o a post. tie thought he !night a well act with defiance, as be well knew there was no justice for Paddington coachmen at Mary-le-bone - Of fice. Mr. Rawassos—Howt is it possible that there should not be a prejudice against a set of individuals who so *rosily commil themselves? scarcely a day passes without someth in g of the 'kW taking place. Your conduct to this gentleman was extronell base. Defendant—But he has exaggerated very much. Lord MoNvroan—Then do you mean to say that this gentle man came here to commit deliberate perjury? Defendant—No ; but that he has exaggerated. Mr. Raver INSON—I believe the gentleman, and shall call upo. you to find bail to appear at the sessions, and also to keep th peace during the interim. Lord Mosevonn was extremely indignant at the defendant' confident manner, and strongly reco m mended Captain fends t ' to prosecute, as it sued ad* whiclt beenved to the public. ,14.10 INSOLVENT DEBTORS. PETITIONS OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS• --- - . To be heard in Portugal-street, LONDON, next 'flizartmr• H. Dowton, Lower Marsh, Lambeth, bread baker. D. Stone, Galway-street, St. Luke's, Middlesex, tin-plat's-sforko , J. Lazarus, Upper Thorrumgk-street, Bedford-square, gine, dealer. T. Holden, Blackburn, Lancashire, cotton-manufacturer. W. Hersee, Pstacock.:street, Newington, Surrey, printer. W. Largent, North-Hall, Brighton, Sussex, cork-manufacture - W. Watkins, Gray's Inn-lane, Middlesex, clerk. J. MiMar, Short's-gardens, Drury-lane, coffee-housa-Iceeper. .1. Brooker, Fenchurch-street, London, carver. W. Alger, Queen-street, Lower-road, Islington, gi•cen-grocer. .I.' Philpott, Sparrow-corner, Minories, silk hat-manufacturer. W. Clerk, Merton, Surrey, labourer. G. Hodder, Shepperton-green, Middlesex, retired quarter ll,o W Hassell, St. Swithin'sklane, London, commercial agent. T. Hates, Merton, Surrey, copper-forger. E. Brett, Cambridge-heath, Hackury-roads carpenter. C. Vincent, Cheyne-walk, Chelsea, Mithilessx, cheesemongeT• G. Burlishl, Ntforthing, Sussex, soap-boiler. J. Dungey, Cranbrook, Kent, grocer. J. Celli', Webb's-lane, Hammersmith, Middlesex, aura' ear. IN THE COUNTRY. Yonx, at the Court-Honse, next WRIWZSDAY. J. Ash, Melton, York, spirit-merchant. R. Scott, Think, York, bridle-cutter. J. Green, Cottingham, Hull, York, blacksmith. J. Curr, Hull, York', traveller. W. Collin, Sculcoates, York, cabinet-maker. R. &mitt, Newton, Helmsley, York, cabinet-maker. A, Wallis, Northallerton, York, publican. J. Burton, Hutton Cranswick, Driffivld, W. Crathorne, Walkington, Beverley, York, farmer. York, tabourer. R. Alilburn, Think, York, bridle-cutter. B. Robson, Yarn, York, vreaver." H. Fox, Beverley York, watch-maker. J. Crathorne, Ws!lkington, BeVerleY, York, farme r. G. Flintoff, Deighton, Northallerimi, York , faiMer. D. Simpson, Ellerker, South Cave, York, labourer. F. Cornforth, Sneaton-Thorpe, Whitby, York, firmer. J. Tyerman, Brompton, Northallerton, York, linen44ll2tifset4r TAUNTON. at the Court-House, next WiID I : II sP AY. R. Thorley,.Welle, Somerset, saddler. R. Chi Lo tic : P gma ner Pen , n dall ia lif e ' o P e n . b k cii il t i o P- r n ) -7 , Co r so e t e n ul t be ' Sthto,m,tuaellelsorerkt.,tfoaramPeirr.°4rn. °flier. R. J. Walden, Crewkerue, Somerset, yeoman.. ever. J. Appleby the younger, Bedminster, Somerset, all"." w H. Allward, 'Taunton, Sornetset, ironmonger. J. H. Meson, .trunkerton, Somerset, labourer. J. Palmer, Spaxton, Somerset, blacksmith. J. Bentley, Chardstrick, Dorset,' farmer. J. Fry, Cretch'Saint Michael, Somerset, mason. .1. Shipp, Chapel-row, Queen-square, B at h, car penter. Wiltnitt,'Bishop't-Hull, Somerset, labourer. T. Cordwent, Taunton, Somerset, saddler. A. Neale, Somerset, innkeeper, T. Taylor; Keknaftern, Somerset, tailor. W. Curtis, East Coher,Somenet, A. Chapman, Glastonbury, Somerset, writer. - • CA 11IDRIDO F, at the Court-House, next ii. Pettit, Illaclingrey, Cambridge, gardener. W. Cocksrton, 'Weston Corvine, Cambridge, shoetn#e* S. Silk; Drayton, Cambridge, labourer. G. Gillingham, Cambridge, whitesmith. ' • G. Kent, Cambridge,' publican. W. Jiggins, Cambridge, yeors n hedei. 'AL MARKIZT...4t7IS d: Felling Main —.26 0 llebbtan Main 31 0 High Heworth l'innzobe ..... 28 3 Holywell —..—.. 28 3 lAdd4ll's Main..... 1111 6 Ord's Redhush 6 POntop Simpson $ n Pontop Windsor 26 tS Tanned *hips at Market, s. d. Towpley IS o %rile} , Main-- Wt 31 9 Wyk= 28 6 Walls End Bell's SI 9 W. E Brown's 30 6 NV. K Green's .980 W. E. Hotspur 99 - 0 W. E. Newmarch 31 9 mb 31 L 36 Halbeath •"--":: Ile Harl l l c m3 ll Sion e j i b/IC() welch t()"4 ';rit -, 95 Walt El"' ',moon .Unsoid, 36_.suit.,,•old t BIRTH. Coun On the 26th inst., tit Dupplin Castle, Pa— thah're the teas Of kinnouh, of a danihter, MARRIED. On the ttl by apeciallivanse, at Clorifillit chorf,/2: 1 1 0 t the County' of Dubbin, 'Lord Sfassy, of Hermitaie, in th!rok of Limerick. to Matirda y youngest (laughter of the I"' White, Eq., of Woodlands i the County of Dublin. ---' _ _ ' . °nthi, 26 th just., at flomar DlED tors, : apd it, Mrs. Ann nbictaw SedgwleX, t'elict of parr g wkic- Ire On the 26th'inst. at Y Hayes, Middlesex, I ieut. Chad" de O n ArAer, R.N. 00 Monday, in her Vld year, Mrs. Pont, relict of John bert Foot, Esq., of the Exchequer-office, Tern Ole. „yid Qn Friday, near H a l es Ow e n, Dlr. joins Taylor, of ZOr aged 76. On Monday, at Clapham, Mr. .1!4:410 romtiokor, Vett I . At'ifitinfries, on 'Thursday se`ttinglit; Edgar. ill e quenoe4 , 44te wire injuirr she 'siiseiykiiid by tie briatiitig 4l ° w " the emelt at Holy:Nowt - yir On ?Saturday, it At dohtte, County of (*low, h' attained the very advanced age of.leZytkorp„ Mr.. Gabriel TborP tillele t eq,klate Alderman ThOrpe, of Dublin. ISritti4'), l l‘l' . liu%l4**lied by N. 43 ? - it tlliVoo-trrk F No. IT?, gttind